Adding your DEA Security server as a tracking system to Security Center - Restricted Security Area Surveillance

RSA Surveillance Integration Guide for DEA Security Systems
Product
Restricted Security Area Surveillance
Content type
Guides > Integration guides
Guides > Plugin and extension guides
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en-US
Last updated
2024-02-12

Before you can monitor the restricted areas secured by your DEA Security perimeter intrusion detection system in Security Center, you must add each DEA Security server as a tracking system in Config Tool.

Before you begin

  • Prepare your DEA Security system for integration with Security Center.
  • Ensure that the DEA server and the server hosting the plugin role are configured for the same time zone.
  • Ensure that the DEA Map Panel is configured in TCP mode.
  • Create a georeferenced map in Security Center.
  • Ensure that enough fence licenses are available in Security Center for all your devices. You can verify your license information in Restricted Security Area Surveillance role > Properties > Licenses. For Enterprise and Professional plugin packages, also ensure that you have enough fence length for the perimeter you want to draw on your maps.

What you should know

The system is not notified of the connection status between the RSA Surveillance plugin and the DEA device. This means that if the communication configuration is incorrect or the connection is lost, the DEA tracking system cannot trigger the Tracking system offline and Tracking system online events, and does not turn red in the area view.

Procedure

  1. From the Config Tool homepage, open the Area view task.
  2. Click Add an entity (), and then select Tracking system.
    The Add tracking system wizard opens.
  3. On the Tracking system information page, enter the following information:
    Type
    Select DEA.
    Name
    Enter a unique name for this tracking system.
  4. Click Next page ().
  5. On the Communication page, enter the following information:
    Listening port
    The TCP port used to receive data from DEA.
    User
    The user used by DEA to authenticate the RSA Surveillance plugin.
    Password
    The password used by DEA to authenticate the RSA Surveillance plugin.
  6. Click Next page ().
  7. On the Specific configuration page, click Add device () and specify the Name, IP address, Port, and Password to connect to the DEA service.
    NOTE: You must add at least one device. The Name is case-sensitive and must match exactly the name configured on the DEA server.
  8. Click Next page ().
  9. On the RSA configuration page, enter the following information:
    Events
    Turn on the custom events that you want to monitor for this tracking system.
    NOTE: You can modify this later on the Properties page of the tracking system.
    Fence configuration
    Choose the color for the perimeter when its state changes. The available options vary by system.
    Change color on intrusion
    Turn on this option if you want the perimeter to change color when an intrusion is detected, and then choose the color for the perimeter.
  10. Click Finish.
    The DEA Security server and its devices are listed in the Area view entity tree.

After you finish

Create RSA zones.